James Buchanan Eads Collection, 1776-1974

<P>World-renowned engineer James Buchanan Eads was born May 23, 1820, in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, and moved to St. Louis with his family in 1833. In 1842 he embarked on a successful steamboat salvage business. During the Civil War, he was awarded a federal government contract to build ironclad gunboats. Soon after the close of the war, he began work on designing a bridge to span the Mississippi River at St. Louis. Completed in 1874, the Illinois and St. Louis Bridge (later known as the Eads Bridge), the bridge was deemed a miracle of engineering. Eads then designed the South Pass Jetties to connect New Orleans with the ocean. He later devised a plan to construct a shop railway across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. This ship railway was never constructed. He died March 8, 1887, in Nassau, Bahama Islands. Eads married Martha Dillon in 1845, and they had three children. His wife died in 1852, and in 1854 he married Eunice Hagerman, a widow.</P>

<P>The collection contains professional and personal correspondence of James B. Eads with Edward Bates, Gideon Welles, Gustavus Fox, Henry Taylor Blow, Frank P. Blair, Jr., Baron Gerolt, and others. Includes papers relating to Eads' construction of gunboats during the Civil War and the construction of the Illinois and St. Louis Bridge (also known as the Eads Bridge). The collection also includes 20th-century newspaper clippings regarding James B. Eads and relations; cancelled stock certificates in the Tunnel Railroad of St. Louis and the St. Louis Bridge Company; invitations to the opening of the Illinois and St. Louis Bridge; promissory notes; Eads' scrapbook of newspaper clippings (1881) relating to his plan to build a ship railway across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec; and papers relating to the genealogy of the McHenry family.</P>

<P>Finding aid available.</P>

<P>2 boxes; 2 oversize folders</P>

<P>Cite as: James Buchanan Eads Collection, Missouri Historical Society Archives, St. Louis.</P>

举世闻名的工程师詹姆斯·布坎南·伊德斯（James Buchanan Eads）于1820年5月23日出生于印第安纳州的劳伦斯堡，并于1833年随家人迁至圣路易斯。1842年，他开始了成功的蒸汽船打捞业务。在南北战争期间，他获得了联邦政府合同，负责建造铁甲战舰。战争结束后不久，他开始设计一座桥梁，以跨越圣路易斯的密西西比河。这座桥于1874年完工，被称为伊利诺伊州与圣路易斯桥（后被称为伊德斯桥），被誉为工程奇迹。伊德斯随后设计了南通道防波堤，以连接新奥尔良与海洋。他后来制定了一项在特万特佩克地峡建造铁路工厂的计划，以连接大西洋与太平洋。然而，这条铁路从未建成。伊德斯于1887年3月8日在巴哈马群岛的纳索逝世。1845年，伊德斯与玛莎·迪隆（Martha Dillon）结婚，他们共有三个孩子。1852年，他的妻子去世，1854年，他与尤妮斯·哈格曼（Eunice Hagerman）再婚，后者是一位寡妇。

本数据集收录了詹姆斯·B·伊德斯与爱德华·贝茨（Edward Bates）、吉迪恩·韦尔斯（Gideon Welles）、古斯塔夫斯·福克斯（Gustavus Fox）、亨利·泰勒·布卢（Henry Taylor Blow）、小弗兰克·P·布莱尔（Frank P. Blair, Jr.）、格罗尔特男爵（Baron Gerolt）等人之间的专业和个人信件。包括与伊德斯在南北战争期间建造铁甲战舰以及伊利诺伊州与圣路易斯桥（亦称伊德斯桥）建设相关的文件。数据集还包含了20世纪关于詹姆斯·B·伊德斯及其关系的报纸剪报；圣路易斯隧道铁路和圣路易斯桥梁公司的注销股票证书；伊利诺伊州与圣路易斯桥开业邀请函；借据；伊德斯有关在特万特佩克地峡修建铁路工厂计划的剪报集（1881年）；以及与麦克亨利家族家谱相关的文件。

本数据集附有检索指南。

数据集包含2个盒子；2个 oversized 文件夹。

引用格式：詹姆斯·布坎南·伊德斯收藏，密苏里历史学会档案，圣路易斯。